The GCC Centre for Translation, Arabization and the Promotion of Arabic is a unit of the General Secretariat of the Cooperation Council for the Arab States. Located in Muscat, the Centre is supervised by the Ministries of Culture in the GCC member countries. The Centre aims at promoting the importance of the Arabic Language amongst the GCC people. It also aims at cooperating and coordinating with the institutions concerned with translation and Arabization in the member countries forming a unified Gulf body which links all efforts and achievements in this respect. The Centre enjoys a fiscal autonomy within the budget of the General Secretariat of the Council.